Beverley Murphy speaks to supporters at a Jan. 29, 2025 protest outside Her Majesty’s Penitentiary in St. John’s, where her 32-year-old son Mitchell is incarcerated. It was mid-January and Beverley Murphy was in court to see her son Mitchell, who is facing criminal charges. [L-R]: Beverley Murphy, Mitchell Murphy, and Mitchell’s son in a photo from Christmas 2022. If he doesn’t get out of HMP soon, she says, Mitchell’s health might never recover. “Psychosis responds to treatment that needs to be provided by mental health professionals, by physicians, by specialists, by registered mental health nurses.